47th UCR Writers Week Festival 2024
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- 2024-02-10 13:00:00
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE
Department of Creative Writing
47th Annual Writers Week Festival 2024
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Writers Week director
Tom Lutz, Writers Week director
Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. writersweek.ucr.edu
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Director, Writers Week
Distinguished Professor
Tom Lutz
Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books
Distinguished Professor
Director, Writers Week
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February 10 and 12-16, 2024
LIVE/VIRTUAL Free and open to the public
Captioned & ASL translated.
Register Here or on any author’s name below
February 16 Post-festival ticketed celebration with our Lifetime Achievement Award partner LA Review of Books. Learn more
Download the Interactive Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Poster
on schedule page
Download the Interactive 47th Writers Week Poster
on schedule page
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Dave Eggers, Rigoberto González, and Quincy Troupe
2024 LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing
Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees, US Poet Laureates
Katherine Vaz – D. Charles Whitney Reader
Kimberly Blaeser – Stephen Minot Lecturer
Tim Z. Hernandez – Mike Davis Reader
Maceo Montoya – Mike Davis Reader
George M. Johnson – Special Session from UCR Library & LGBT Resource Center
47th UCR Writers Week Featured Writers
Noah Arjomand, Rilla Askew, Reza Aslan, Brendan Shay Basham, Lou Berney, Erik Bitsui, Kimberly Blaeser, Kate Bolton Bonnici, Aaron C. Boothby, Marie Alohalani Brown, Elena Karina Byrne, Lizzie Davis, Marsha De La O, Stacie Denetsosie, Daisy Ocampo Diaz, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Dave Eggers, Farnaz Fatemi, Tanya Frank, Rigoberto González, Tim Z. Hernandez, Minda Honey, Laird Hunt, Jessica Johns, George M. Johnson, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Randi LeClair, Donato Martinez, Adrian Matejka, Maceo Montoya, Miguel Morales, Sandra Meek, Leah Myers, Jesse Nathan, Cindy Yuyoung Ok, Cati Porter, Jason Magabo Perez, Marcie Rendon, Robert Roensch, Andrea Rogers, Prageeta Sharma, Matthew Shenoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Melissa Studdard, Tess Taylor, Lisa Teasley, Justin Torres, Quincy Troupe, Katherine Vaz, Vickie Vértiz, Marc Vincenz, Issam Zineh
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SCHEDULE
Saturday, Feb 10 Pre-Festival Events
SESSION 1: 1:00 PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
Film Screenings by
Noah Arjomand & Randi LeClair
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Monday, Feb 12
SESSION 1 – 3:00PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
MFA READING –
MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts Candidates
SESSION 2 – 5:00PM PST VIRTUAL
Jessica Johns • Marcie Rendon •Andrea Rogers
SESSION 3 – 6:30PM PST VIRTUAL
Tim Z. Hernandez, Mike Davis Reader • Maceo Montoya, Mike Davis Reader •
Justin Torres, 2023 NBA Winner for Fiction
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Tuesday, Feb 13
SESSION 1 – 12:00 PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
George M. Johnson
Special Session
We Are Not Broken
Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists
SESSION 2 – 2:00PM PST
POETS PLACE/WRITERS RESIST READING LIVE/VIRTUAL
Writers Resist Riverside: in collaboration with Pen America &
Poets Place/Writers Resist Activist Garden
SESSION 3 – 3:30PM PST VIRTUAL
Rilla Askew • Lou Berney • Robert Roensch
SESSION 4 – 6:30PM PST VIRTUAL
Marie Alohalani Brown • Megan Kamalei Kakimoto • Leah Myers
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Wednesday, Feb 14
SESSION 1 – 11:00 AM PST VIRTUAL
Laird Hunt • Matthew Shenoda • Eleni Sikelianos • Marc Vincenz
SESSION 2 – 1:00PM PST VIRTUAL
Elena Karina Byrne • Marsha De La O • Melissa Studdard • Lisa Teasley
SESSION 3 – 3:00PM PST VIRTUAL
Aaron C. Boothby• Lizzie Davis • Tanya Frank • Adrian Matejka
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Thursday, Feb 15
ESSION 1: 10:00AM PST VIRTUAL
Emily Marie Passos Duffy • Katherine Vaz, D. Charles Whitney Reader
SESSION 2: 1:30PM PST VIRTUAL
Jose Hernandez Diaz • Sandra Meek • Jesse Nathan
SESSION 3: 3:30PM PST VIRTUAL
Brendan Shay Basham • Erik Bitsui • Stacie Denetsosie
SESSION 4: 7:00 PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony
Dave Eggers
Rigoberto González
Quincy Troupe
Dave Eggers • Rigoberto González • Quincy Troupe
Lifetime Achievement Awards Honorees
Los Angeles Review of Books & UCR Department of Creative Writing
9th Annual Award
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Friday, Feb 19
FRIDAY 2/16/2024
SESSION 1: 11:00AM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
Kate Bolton Bonnici• Donato Martinez • Cati Porter • Jason Magabo Perez
SESSION 2: 1:00PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
Reza Aslan • Minda Honey • Vickie Vértiz • Issam Zineh
SESSION 3: 3PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
Kimberly Blaeser, Stephen Minot Lecturer • Daisy Ocampo Diaz • Randi LeClair
SESSION 4: 6:30-8:30PM PST LIVE/VIRTUAL
Farnaz Fatemi • Cindy Yuyoung Ok • Prageeta Sharma
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A live ticketed after-event award celebration is scheduled with LA Review of Books. Learn More
2021 LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing
Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees,
Dave Eggers
Rigoberto González
Quincy Troupe
Dave Eggers • Rigoberto González • Quincy Troupe
Lifetime Achievement Awards Honorees
Los Angeles Review of Books & UCR Department of Creative Writing
9th Annual Award
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SPECIAL THANKS
The 47th Writers Week 2024 is made possible by support from UCR Department of English; UCR Department of Music; UCR Department of Sociology; UCR Department of Media and Cultural Studies; African Student Programs (ASP); UCR Department of Political Science; UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production; UCR Department of Religious Studies; Holstein Family and Community Chair In Religious Studies, Pr. Melissa Wilcox; Asian Pacific Student Programs; Poets & Writers; Associate Professor and Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English, Pr. Alex Espinoza; UCR Center for Ideas and Society; California Center for Native Nations; UCR LGBT Resource Center; Native American Student Programs (NASP), Joshua Gonzales, Director; Dr. Clifford Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs; UCR Library; College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office; the Ratliff Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund; our partner the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), and is hosted by the UCR Department of Creative Writing.
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Book purchases
Attendees may purchase books at live events from our own campus B & N bookstore (order online here). Cellar Door Books is our recommended local independent store. Be sure to stop by their page.
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